philco-ford roundie score - pics

[Charlie]

Fuji: The front of the set say SS Color because approximately a third of your set uses transistors. You have four transistors in the tuner and six more on the chassis operating the video IF strip, video amp, and two for AGC. The rest of the set (color, deflection, sound) runs on tubes. I guess they thought they had enough transistors in there to say it was Solid State Color (even though the actual color circuits are tubes).

That's also part of why they call it a Cool Chassis... far less tubes in there, so not as much heat being produced.